Acoustics in Multimedia Classrooms for Life-long Learning

Acoustics is a characteristics of a room in which sound is well transferred and well received (heard), i.e. sound depending on type (speech or music, that is, type of music) and purpose (listening or recording). The development of acoustics - acoustics science, and especially its subcategories, architectural acoustics, is founded on defining objective parameters of spatial acoustics quality and finding new methods of their measuring and identifying their relationship with subjective parameters of spatial acoustic quality obtained through subjective testing. That is why the task of this simulation research was to make an estimate, a simulation and measurement of the acoustics of representative multimedia classroom (classroom at the Institute for electroacoustics, FER Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing). Measurements and simulations of some objective parameters of acoustic quality were conducted in order to determine whether the representative multimedia classroom was acoustic or not, and if not, what measures should be taken in order for the mentioned room to meet conditions for being acoustic.